Exactly one year ago, I made the exhilarating decision to quit my job as an attorney, and instead pursue a fellowship that would train me to become a law librarian. The fellowship program was at the University of Arizona, which would mean a cross-country move to...

Ah yes, the Great American Road Trip, a fundamental category of American identity which has worked itself into our psyche through all sort of cultural representations: think of such examples as Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. The long cross country trip, a foundational...